From January to July this year, 174 addresses in the Municipality of Pre\u0161evo and 26 in Bujanovac have been deactivated, said the chairman of the Albanian National Council, Nevzad Luftiu.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cFrightening, we are disappearing,\u201d he wrote on Facebook.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He stated that what is happening is racism and a clear case of ethnic cleansing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cOn August 4, 2025, I requested access to information from police stations in Bujanovac and Pre\u0161evo, asking: How many addresses have been deactivated in these two municipalities from January to July 2025? I received a written response yesterday: during the aforementioned period, 174 addresses were deactivated in the Municipality of Pre\u0161evo, and 26 in the Municipality of Bujanovac,\u201d Luftiu wrote, adding that he is still awaiting another response to verify the data for Bujanovac.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He called on all Albanian political actors to gather \u201cto coordinate and cooperate.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Address deactivation has been regulated by law in Serbia since 2011 and requires institutions to verify whether a resident lives at the registered address.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The removal of citizens from registered addresses means deactivation. In this way, people lose the right to vote, own property, receive a pension, or be employed in Serbia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Albanians living in municipalities in southern Serbia \u2013 Pre\u0161evo, Medve\u0111a, and Bujanovac \u2013 have long complained about address deactivation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A 2021 report by the Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in Serbia stated that the issue of address deactivation is essentially a form of ethnic cleansing through administrative methods.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
From January to July this year, 174 addresses in the Municipality of Pre\u0161evo and 26 in Bujanovac have been deactivated, said the chairman of the Albanian National Council, Nevzad Luftiu. \u201cFrightening, we are disappearing,\u201d he wrote on Facebook. He stated that what is happening is racism and a clear case of ethnic cleansing. \u201cOn August […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":76163,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[301,296],"tags":[2566,6527,763],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76162"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76162"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76164,"href":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76162\/revisions\/76164"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}